TUNABLE PICOSECOND BLUE AND ULTRAVIOLET PULSES FROM A DIODE-PUMPED LASER SYSTEM SEEDED BY A GAIN-SWITCHED LASER-DIODE

Authors
BALEMBOIS F GAIGNET M GEORGES P BRUN A STELMAKH N LOURTIOZ JM
Citation
F. Balembois et al., TUNABLE PICOSECOND BLUE AND ULTRAVIOLET PULSES FROM A DIODE-PUMPED LASER SYSTEM SEEDED BY A GAIN-SWITCHED LASER-DIODE, Applied optics, 37(21), 1998, pp. 4876-4880
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
37
Issue
21
Year of publication
1998
Pages
4876 - 4880
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1998)37:21<4876:TPBAUP>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Picosecond pulses emitted from a gain-switched laser diode have been a mplified in a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier indirectly pumped by a 4-W laser diode. This all-solid-state system produced micro-joule pu lses tunable from 803 to 840 nm at repetition rates up to 25 kHz with durations of 70 -100 ps. By frequency doubling and tripling the output , we generated blue and UV pulses tunable from 401 to 420 nm and from 268 to 280 nm, respectively. Average powers larger than 4 mW were reac hed in these two wavelength regions. (C) 1998 Optical Society of Ameri ca.